The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-02-11

lunchrOOm. Mr.. Witch is young
man of pleasant address, aud has had
mnch experience i'm his business and
will no doubt, i've us good bakery,
We opiue that he will find it paying
business in this Toronto Regis.
ter.
The party given by the so. BIS" tG
their lady friends at COlbOrn's hall last
Friday evening called together some
15 or more couples to whom the time
passed SO rapidly that half the night
was gone before they were aware Of it.
We don't know how enthusiastic the
guests were, but we heard one of the
hosts remark that he would "likc to
see this thing repeated every two
weeks of the year." Docs anybody
second the motion?
George Sutton, the billiard man, re-
ceived notice that his pension claim,
which has been pending for II years,
has at last been allowed. The arrear.
age amounts to S4.S45.37, and the pen
sion from this on will be $50 a month.
1t is needless to say that Mr.. Sutton
is highly pleased and is fully satisfied
that this is a good government to live
under. His friends rejoice also in his
good fortune. We understand that he
will probably remove to California in
the spring in the hope that he will
have better health there.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. J. McKenna, recently from
lola, this state, have been appointed to posi-
tions in the post Office here by Mr.. Blackburn,
and will go to work regularly as soon as Mr..
BIS. commission arrives. Mrs Mckenna is
an old hand in the business, having served
several years at lola in the capacity of assis-
tant postmaster. She comes very highly re-
lady, but a most efficient postmist ress, greatly
beloved by the public generally. Mr.. Mcken-
ma also comes with splendid credentials, and
the two will do good work in the postoflice, as
Ne1rs.
We take pleasure in assuring the
people of Hutchinson that Mr.. and
Mrs. McKenna have not been too
highly recommended.
By instruction Of the Council, Mayor
Cowan has given notice to the S. X.
r. r. Co., Isaac Freeman, r. w. Acers
and others that on Feb. %, 1887, at one
O'Clock p. m. of said day, at the Office
of the County Clerk of Allen county
Kansas petition in the name of the
city of lola, Kansas, will be presented
to the Board of County Commissioners
of said county praying, that the city
limits of said city may be extended SD
as to include territory adjacent to, and
lying on the west side of said city.
The petition will probably be granted
as we understand that the railroad
which is the most heavily
interested party, is anxious to have the
limits extended so that its depot and
other property may be entitled to police
protection.
If there is such a thing possible our
laws regulating the operation of In
surance companies in the State ought
to be SO revised as to afford the people
some protection. The laws we have
are certainly defective. AS an illus
tration of this. Mr.. D. f. Williams,
before consenting to act as agent for
the AtchisOn Live Stock Insurance
wrote to the State Commits
sioner of Insurance, and received re-
ply stating that the Company had
complied with the laws of the State.
Mr.. Williams then went to work, and
wrote a great many policies. 1t now
appears, however, that the Company
is worthless and can pay none of its
losses. The laws should certainly be
so that when a Company has
complied with them the people may be
certain it is sound.
1t is very seldom that the copy
furnished us for the program of the
meeting of the A. c. L. A.
is correct and complete. In nearly
every instance either the date or the
place of meeting is omitted, and We
have been frequently put to consider
able trouble to supply the omission.
In the copy furnished us last week
neither date nor place of meeting was
stated and as our limited stock of pa
thence was about exhausted we pub
lished it just as it was sent, hoping
that somebody would take the hint.
As one result of this course We have q
card from a member of the committee
stating that Feb. 26, is the date of the
We are still in the dark,
however, as to where it is to be held.
we will get all the points in
lime to publish the notice as it should
be by the end of the month. Sdbe?
We understand that several widows
If deceased soldiers have recently Or
Tered tombstones under the represen-
tation by the agent, that the county
would pay $40 of the cost, no matter
what it was. For example, one
woman who did not feel able to pay
but SIS ordered a SS5 stone with the
that the county would
pay $40 of it. In each case, however,
The agent is careful to take the party's
note for the entire amount, giving
some plausible reason for requiring it.
The real reason he requires it is of
course because he knows that the coun-
ty will never pay a cent of it and that
he will have to collect it all from the
une who gives him the order. The
law governing this matter will be found
on our first page and its provisions are
plain. The county will pay nothing
toward erecting soldiers tombstone
unless the grave would bA otherwise
The intent of the law is
to see that every soldiers grave is
to assist his relatives to
erect a more expensive monument
than they could otherwise afford.
A sad and singular case either of
suicide or accidental death is reported
to US by DR.. Chastain. When the
Doctor reached his office Wednesday
morning he found a corpse hanging TO
his door knob. 1t was the corpse of
rat, and it was dead quite dead, sus-
pended from the knob by a cotton
string attached to its tail. 1t was
clearly case Of suspended animation.
The Doctor has two theories to account
for the sad occurrence. One is that it
was case of deliberate suicide on ac-
count of blighted affection; and the
other is that the rat accidentally got
Irvine tangled about his tail and in
order to free himself from it climbed